Hero son dies while defending his mother in northern China marketplace
‘He just stood in front of me to protect me ... my boy fell down with his hands touching his heart’
A 23-year-old man has died after he was stabbed while trying to protect his mother from a snatch thief in a vegetable market in northern China.
Local police said the incident happened at 7am on Saturday in Wuji county, Hebei province. The names of the man, who had a wife and a two-year-old daughter, and his mother have not been released. Police said a 31-year-old man had been detained.
The mother told news website Thepaper.cn that she had asked her son to accompany her to the market after being threatened by a bag snatcher there three days before.
The woman, who runs a village grocery store, goes to the market regularly to buy vegetables and meat, usually taking about 2,000 yuan (US$290) in cash in her bag.
She said she asked her son to go with her on Saturday, as she thought “bag snatchers only target women and I won’t feel afraid with my son there”.
